You Are A Badass PDF (Summary & Quotes)

Introduction

You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero is an international bestselling self-help book that helps us understand our behaviors and attitudes so that we can transform our lives and achieve incredible things.

It links with the principles of the Law of Attraction, sharing the same philosophies and ideologies. There is an emphasis on the existence of a Source Energy which connects us deeply to The Universe.

Sincero’s light-hearted and humorous approach to self-discovery makes difficult concepts easier to grasp. Her own life serves as an example of how transformation is possible if we are serious about it.

She used these struggles to her advantage and created a kickass life. Her journey from broke to badass should serve as an inspiration and a reminder that anything is possible if we open up ourselves to new beliefs and opportunities. Regardless of age, gender, or circumstance, change is possible if we are willing to fully commit to it and work on improving our situation.

• Chapter 1 explains how our subconscious mind works and how it can negatively impact our way of thinking.

• Chapter 2 illustrates the importance of believing in a Source Energy to unleash the power of The Law of Attraction.

• Chapter 3 emphasizes the power of living in the now and how worrying destroys our chances of benefitting from the limitless abundance of The Universe.

• Chapter 4 introduces us to the concept of the “Ego” and how it can sabotage our happiness.

• Chapter 21 reveals how our perceptions and judgments are based on filtered information and that they are like mirrors that project our preferences.

• Chapter 22 reminds us to live in the moment by providing scenarios that depict how we take things for granted.

• Chapter 23 explains the importance of making a decision and committing to it if we are serious about changing our lives.

• Chapter 24 focuses on changing our perspective about money in order to have a positive relationship with it.

• Chapter 25 prepares us to understand the concept of “surrender” and how it ties in with how The Universe works.

• Chapter 26 explains what separates successful people from unsuccessful people and reveals what successful people do to thrive, no matter the obstacles.

• Chapter 27 wraps up the discussion and reiterates that we can achieve success by emulating successful personalities and following their ideologies and approaches.

You Are A Badass is an essential toolkit for people who desperately want to change the course of their lives by making necessary corrections along the way.

This self-help guide combines humor and a no-nonsense approach with tangible examples and practical solutions to overcome life’s stumbling blocks.

My Subconscious Made Me Do It

We have a conscious mind and a subconscious mind. The conscious mind is where we process information. It jumps from one thought to the next without stopping to take a breath, switching off temporarily when we drift to sleep, but springing back to action as soon as we open our eyes.

It’s that part of the brain that is unable to distinguish a lie from the truth. It believes anything that is communicated.

The subconscious mind, on the other hand, is the non-analytical part of our brain that’s in charge of our feelings and instincts. This is also the repository of all early information we get from different sources.

When we are kids, we take information from different people that surround us and we have no ability to filter this information because our frontal lobes haven’t fully developed yet. All this information is stored in our subconscious minds as “truths” and beliefs.

It stays there undisturbed and unanalyzed until we are forced to confront the information. We are essentially oblivious to our subconscious beliefs but they control our lives.

Our conscious mind likes to think that it’s in total control, but it’s our subconscious mind that takes charge. This is why we go through life doing things that we know from our conscious minds, but remain clueless as to why we do not develop to our full potential and create the lives that we really want.

No matter how we consciously do things to achieve the results we want, if the subconscious belief is not available to us, we will not be able to reach our goal.

The things we do are driven by our subconscious minds and if they are not aligned to the things and experiences that we want in our conscious minds, it creates conflict.

What we’re trying to create and the things that we are actually creating are completely out of sync, so we must rid ourselves of the limiting subconscious beliefs by becoming aware of their existence. This opens up a space to welcome new beliefs and experiences that we want to have in our lives.

The G Word

It’s important to develop an awareness of a Source Energy that surrounds us and lives inside us. It has nothing to do with religion.

Regardless of our stand on the issue of God, we should have an open mind and acknowledge the presence of a higher being or energy. Doing so will make it much easier to do things that can improve our lives. Developing a relationship with this source is the first step to creating an excellent life.

We are connected to this limitless power or energy but we are not using this connection to its full potential. A deep connection to the Source Energy is like having an invisible inner superpower that can bring about the things we want in our lives.

The basic idea of The Law of Attraction is to focus on what makes us feel good so we can attract the things we desire. This occurs because all energy vibrates at a certain frequency level. Everything you desire and don’t desire also emits a certain frequency. When your own frequency is in sync with the frequency of your desires, you’re bound to get them. Simply put, vibration attracts like vibration.

To match the vibration of the things we want, we need to raise our own frequency. At high frequency, we can effortlessly find the right people and opportunities that can help us to get what we want.

Staying in the highest frequency allows us to harness our innate power to create the reality that we truly desire. To do this, we have to believe that everything we desire is available to us. It’s also important that we keep a strong connection to the invisible Source Energy. This is an exercise in making our faith greater than our fear.

Present as a Pigeon

Most of us go through life switching between freaking out and living in the now. We spend such a crazy amount of time worrying about the negative things that may not happen that we completely ignore the miracle that’s happening right at this moment. It’s a real shame that even if we live in a limitless universe overflowing with abundance and miracles, we’d rather go through life stumbling.

The Universe wants us to succeed and wants us to partake in all it can offer by sending little wake-up calls. The only thing we need to do is to learn to be aware of them. The things that we want to have already exist in the universe. The money that seems elusive is already there for the taking. The life partner we want to meet is already alive. The things that we want to experience are already available to us. We just need to manifest those things into our reality.

Being present in the moment and being connected to the Source Energy can help us become aware that the things we want in life already exist in the now and that we can have them anytime. It’s just a matter of making ourselves truly available to accept them. If we continuously bombard ourselves with endless noise in our head, we fail to attract the positive frequency that The Universe is constantly sending to us. By getting wrapped up with the things we don’t want, we miss out on what’s readily available to us at this moment. Spending more of our time in the moment connects us to the Source Energy, which consequently increases our frequencies.

The Big Snooze

In the realm of spirituality, the “Ego” refers to the false self or the shadow self. It’s that destructive version of ourselves that can sabotage our happiness.

The Ego (or the Big Snooze, as the author likes to call it) operates based on our limiting false beliefs. These beliefs are essentially the garbage stuffed into our subconscious when we were still kids. They are not the real truths because they are based on fear and to get validation from outside sources.

They are the very same things that keep us safely confined within a false reality created based on limiting false beliefs. This is why we are happy to stay in our comfort zones. The Ego lives in the past and keeps us separated from everything around us.

Our true selves, on the other hand, operate based on our strong connection to the Source Energy. It gets validation from deep inside ourselves. It’s based on love, not fear. It’s proactive, not reactive.

Once we break away from the limits imposed upon us by the Ego, we can commit to creating a reality that is based on our limitless potential. Our true selves do not live in our heads, they live in the now.

If we let the Ego control our lives, we settle for the realities that are so beneath what’s available to us. We need to realize that we deserve better than that and we should work to stop self-sabotaging ourselves and get out of our comfort zones.

Taking a huge leap of faith is not irresponsible; it’s a great way to free ourselves from the clutches of fear and anxiety. Often, taking the leap is the wake-up call that we need to make positive changes in our lives.

Staying in the risk-free zone makes the Ego content and that’s something that we don’t want to happen if we desire something better. The Ego creates chaos because it wants to keep things as it is, instead of wanting to move into the unknown.

It’s time to re-wire our beliefs and go for what’s truly in our hearts. The Ego will do everything to stop us because it’s hardwired to do so. It will set up emotional blocks and pull us right back into the land of mediocrity and away from greatness.

Self-Perception Is A Zoo

It’s difficult to view ourselves in a positive light. We are content with our self-deprecating ways.

What we don’t realize is that it takes the same amount of energy and focus to believe in the negative as it does to believe in the positive.

Why do we always choose the negative side of things when we know that it’s so unnecessary? Instead, we should try to see ourselves through the eyes of people who truly admire us.

This is because they are not connected to our insecurities and our negative self-perceptions. They only see our potential and our greatness.

It would be unfair to treat ourselves as less than what we truly are. Even The Universe is rallying behind us to start seeing ourselves as great individuals in our own right.

The journey that is called life has no defined beginning, middle, or end, so the only thing that’s clearly established is our very own existence; the act of being. Our only job is to be.

Love The One You Are

We’re born with an understanding of the basics of life. This is what we call human instinct. We learn how to do things without a care in the world.

We don’t hold back from doing them. As we grow and interact with more people, this primal understanding is replaced by negative beliefs. Shame, self-doubt, and fear push their way into our conscious mind and dominate our lives. We end up in emotional and physical pain that we try to numb with things that give us temporary relief like drugs, food, or alcohol.

We have a choice to begin again. If we remind ourselves of how great we are, we can relearn the instincts that we’ve lost. This time around, we should trust our instincts instead of believing in things that other people say. We should stop buying into things that are not true for us. We need to reconnect with our true selves and start investing in things that match what we want to achieve. Only then can we start to live rich and fulfilling lives. It’s time to love ourselves and let go of shame, guilt, and self-loathing.

We can get back our true selves by acknowledging and appreciating how special we are. We should embrace our own uniqueness and treat our flaws as part of what makes us special. We should drown ourselves in affirmations because it helps rewire our brains to think according to the principles of The Law of Attraction. We should start doing the things we love to do and make sure we find time to do them regularly. It’s not healthy to deprive ourselves of things that make us feel the most alive.

We should adjust our thought and behavior patterns by replacing the negatives with the positives. We should get rid of our self-deprecating ways because it builds a negative perception of ourselves. They are false and destructive beliefs that can ruin our self-confidence. Most importantly, we should let love into our lives by taking care of ourselves physically, mentally, and spiritually. We should stop comparing ourselves to others because doing so makes us desire other people’s standards. If we have made mistakes in the past, we should learn to forgive ourselves. If we love ourselves, we are on the right path to true happiness.

I Know You Are But What Am I?

The reason we don’t get anywhere near our maximum potential is that we place so much importance on what other people say about us. We have the tendency to please everyone around us and we take their opinions as absolute truths.

The problem is that we use their opinions to motivate us. If we are motivated by false beliefs, what we achieve will not be fulfilling. Our obsession with how others perceive us is not only destructive, but it’s also pointless.

Our decision-making process should be guided by questions that pertain to our own feelings. We should ask if it’s something that we really want to do or if it’s something that takes us in the direction we want to go. We should also ask if doing something would affect others negatively. It may sound selfish, but we have to do things that we want to do and not do what we should do because other people say so.

The obsession to seek approval from others stems from our fear of being rejected by the group we belong to or identify with. There’s fear that we won’t survive without them when in reality, it’ll be much easier to achieve our goals when we’re free to do whatever we want to do. This mentality stops us from breaking away from the herd and letting our true selves shine through.

We need to understand that what people think of us has nothing to do with us, but everything to do with them. It doesn’t mean we should completely ignore criticisms, we just should not allow them to have power over us. Our self-worth should not be based on other people’s opinions. We should learn to take the benefit from outside opinions and throw away the toxic ones. Just remember that we are above what others say about us.

What Are You Doing Here?

We are born with valuable gifts. These gifts come in the form of talents, skills, or special abilities that make us unique. When we share these gifts with others, we become aligned with our highest and most powerful selves.

Many of us don’t immediately know what our gifts are, but once we figure that out, we can start living our lives with a purpose.

Being completely confused about our real purpose in life is not a bad thing. What we need to keep in mind is that the answer to that question already exists, we just need to find clarity first.

To figure out our true calling, we must first be the “alien”. If we have the mindset of an alien, we treat everything around us as a new opportunity. We become curious and inquisitive. From this curiosity, we can explore things that we never knew existed. From there, we can create new things. It’s just like looking at things with a new pair of eyes and discovering that the possibilities are endless.

There’s a tendency to waste our lives trying to figure out what action to take when the only thing that’s needed is to actually do something. Taking action is the first step. We may not have a full understanding of what we need to do or where we need to go, but if we make the move based on our own feelings and instincts, half the battle is won.

There’s no guarantee that all our hopes and dreams will become reality right away, but if we take the first step, we are setting the wheels in motion. Life is a journey and everything we do along the way contributes to our journey. Doing the best we can, even in the little things we do, takes us closer to where we need to go.

We have this notion that living an extraordinary life is difficult because we think that we have to overhaul ourselves to do it. We do not have to create an ideal life from scratch. All we have to do is figure out what makes us feel alive. The more specific we are, the easier it is for us to create a clear picture of what we want.

We are constantly evolving, so it’s possible that our wants can change over time. We may even have to answer many callings before we find the real one. The important thing is to do what feels good right now. If nothing seems to be working, tuning in to our intuition is always a good starting point.

It also doesn’t hurt to follow our fantasies. We usually fantasize about the things that make us happy. They are windows to who we are and they represent our innermost desires. If we can tap into the things that bring us joy and fulfillment, then we can get some clarity on our purpose.

Loincloth Man

A loincloth man once said that modern society had become so unnecessarily complicated and misguided that he chose to live on what nature provided him.

He was true to himself and he was happy, despite subsisting on the bare necessities. We all could learn a thing or two from this loincloth man.

He didn’t need anyone’s approval to live the life he wanted to live. He was unapologetic for the choices he made because he was living the life that made him happy and fulfilled. He’s proof that we can do whatever pleases us without fear of judgment.

Meditation 101

Meditation is simply sitting still and doing nothing. It’s ridiculously easy on paper, but incredibly difficult in practice. The main goal of meditation is to quiet the mind and connect to the Source Energy.

We are urged to do meditations regularly to fine-tune our frequencies to be in sync with the frequency of The Universe.

Starting is always hard because our mind is not used to being in a state of quiet. The best way is to gradually get into the habit by doing five to ten minutes of meditation every day and adding more time as it becomes more comfortable to do so.

Meditation can greatly improve our lives because it connects us to the Source Energy, whatever that may be to us. It could be God, the force, or a supreme being. When we meditate, we shift into the present moment and we relax. In our relaxed state, our stress goes away and our intuition strengthens. It raises our frequency and opens us up to receive unlimited information and ideas.

The best way to start is to sit comfortably on the floor or in a chair with hands on your lap. Closing your eyes helps you focus on breathing. When you’ve reached a comfortable position, release any thoughts that come to mind. Make sure that your mind is as clear and empty as possible. Be aware of intuitive thoughts that may or may not arise.

It may be difficult to get it right the first time, but there’s no need to worry about the right way or wrong way of doing things, you just have to do it. When nothing works, there’s always guided meditation using CDs, DVDs, or apps.

Meditation is an important habit especially in this day and age when technology bombards us with information. This distraction has become such a big part of our day-to-day living that it becomes difficult to focus on silencing our busy minds. Meditation is our respite from the distractions of life.

Your Brain Is Your Bitch

The Universe is a genius wrapped in awesomeness. It’s magnificently complex and yet it’s also astonishingly efficient. It’s not random. It’s by design. It’s a well-oiled machine that runs like clockwork.

With its intelligence, everything has a place and purpose. But what makes it operate in such a brilliant way? It’s our mind. Our mind is the thinking matter used to create us. If we can appreciate the depth of that statement, we’ll be able to understand why positive thinking is necessary.

If we stop to think that our thoughts are the most powerful tool in our arsenal, then we can create spectacular things to improve our way of life. We can create better and more meaningful realities. We can use the power of thought to change the negativity that surrounds us. It doesn’t matter what our current realities look like because where we desire to be is the truth. If we train our minds to focus on this truth, we must believe that what we desire is already here. If we take decisive actions, what we desire will manifest itself.

It’s a matter of getting into the proper mindset. We all desire the best things in life, but we fail to get them because we don’t buy into the idea that we can succeed. We have the tendency not to believe in our abilities. It’s these limiting false truths that stop us from getting what we truly desire.

Our thoughts and beliefs dictate what our realities could be, so if we want to change our realities, the only way to do it is to change our thoughts and our beliefs. It’s easier said than done because we tend to be protective of our false beliefs about ourselves. Our reality will begin to shift the moment we start believing in things that have yet to come about.

It’s important to keep our thoughts directed to our goals by doing to make our goals happen. It takes patience, determination, and a shift in thinking, but it’s perfectly doable.

Lead with Your Crotch

Creative pursuits bring spectacular results when we put the focus on creating things with reckless abandon.

This is true especially at a younger age when we are not yet jaded by failure; we take big leaps of faith and disregard the “what-if’s” that paralyze us and put limits on what we can do. It’s when we get older that we become grown-up versions of our reckless selves.

We buy into the idea that having responsibilities means not having fun anymore. We lose all our excitement about life; we settle for less and accept the mediocrity of our lives.

Life is too short – that’s why there’s no point in just waiting for the journey to end. We have to allow ourselves to dream and make a conscious effort to make that dream come true. Fears brought on by negative past experiences must be overcome if we are to live life to the fullest. Even if the negatives outnumber the positives, we still need to focus on the latter.

We need to reconnect with our inner kids. It may sound ridiculous and nonsensical, but if we think about our lives when we were younger, we’ll find that all these things make sense. It’s through our inner kids that we get excited about life and we do all sorts of things that make us happy. If we are having trouble finding our way, we should think back to the time when we were totally pumped up by life.

Give and Let Give

Giving is one of life’s greatest joys. It is also one of the most powerful gestures that any human being can do. This act of selflessness is also a show of fearlessness. We live in an abundant universe and when we give things freely, we raise our frequencies. This act of kindness strengthens our faith and puts us in a position to receive abundance.

We hold on to things because we don’t trust that there’s more where they came from. We fear that by giving away what we have, we stand to lose more. We should remind ourselves that we live in The Universe where every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The more we give, the more we receive. We’ve known this for a fact ever since we can remember but we refuse to accept it as a positive truth. It’s a simple principle that can easily be applied. Doing so can make a huge shift in our lives.

Gratitude: The Gateway Drug to Awesomeness

Being in a state of gratitude allows us more access to The Universe’s abundant supply of awesomeness. Having gratitude goes beyond being polite and having good manners. It’s a state of being wherein we become aware of the miracles in life and we develop a deep appreciation for them.

Think of the times you felt great by thanking someone for doing something for you. The act does not only make us feel grateful, but it also makes the other party feel great, which in turn makes us feel great too. It’s a cycle that keeps on giving. This raises our frequencies and it becomes easier to connect to the Source Energy.

It puts us in a more powerful state of being and good things start to happen. Conversely, when we go through life being angry, bitter, and disappointed, we lower our frequencies and we are in a less powerful state so it’s difficult to bring about good feelings and experiences.

What’s great about gratitude is that we are expending a lot of positive energy that bounces back to us. It’s an exchange of high-frequency energy so powerful that great things start happening in our lives. The more we stay consistent in the state of gratitude, the stronger our connection is to the Source Energy. Consequently, the manifestation of the reality we want to have comes to us more effortlessly.

Gratitude also strengthens our faith, which is a necessary element when we finally decide to go outside of our comfort zone. We need this faith in the unknown to create new realities that improve our lives. Being in a state of gratitude sends signals to The Universe that we know that what we desire already exists and puts us in the right frequency to receive it.

Forgive or Fester

When we feel physical pain, we immediately spring to action to find relief, but when it comes to emotional pain, we torture ourselves to no end. We wallow in negative emotions of guilt, shame, and resentment, which leads us to protracted misery that we really don’t need. When we keep reliving the worst moments in our lives, we refuse to let the healing process begin.

Forgiving ourselves and others melt away the negative feelings we have inside. It’s a necessary condition to raise our frequencies. We can’t allow anger and resentment to fester because they are roadblocks to happiness.

Forgiveness means letting go of ill feelings towards people who have done us wrong. This is a difficult thing to do and it takes strength and courage, but it’s crucial to our well-being. To start the process of forgiveness, we need to have compassion towards the people who have wronged us. It starts the healing process and prepares us to completely erase those people from the equation.

We’re constantly being told to take the high road and refrain from engaging further with the people who bring out the worst in us. We feel that we are right and they are wrong, but it’s no longer about being right and being wrong. It’s about deciding to be happy rather than to be right. If we really want to let go, we should be okay with letting them think that they are right. This is less difficult to do if we look from all angles. It gives different perspectives so that we can begin to understand that we can’t have our way all the time.

Venting is a great way to shake off the hurt. If we do it alone to the point of exhaustion, we’ll feel the anger melt away. Getting the negative feelings out of our system is part of the healing process. What’s great about this is that we probably won’t remember any of this. If we love ourselves, we should be able to let go and forget about it.

Loosen Your Bone, Wilma

The author’s trip to India taught her lessons in life that she wouldn’t otherwise have learned. India is vibrant, chaotic, and filled to the brim with humanity.

A twelve-hour bus ride through a city can be a lesson in spirituality and life. It’s a life-changing journey that involves talking to many strangers, finding humor even in the worst of situations.

It’s So Easy Once You Figure Out It Isn’t Hard

We live our lives differently, but we have something in common when it comes to our desires. We can see want we want and we do things to get it, even if it kills us. This is because we keep doing the same thing over and over and we expect to have a different result. When something is not working, we keep doing it thinking that if we do it enough, it will work. What we need to do is take a moment to look at things differently so we can find the solution that we need. We’re too caught up with drama and false beliefs that we fail to see that we are presented with infinite possibilities and opportunities.

We fail to take notice of the important things because our focus is directed elsewhere, on things that don’t matter. What we focus on becomes our reality. If we focus on the wrong things, we shouldn’t be surprised when wrong things manifest in our lives. We can create the reality that we want, we just need to focus on the right things. We need to ditch our attachments that don’t serve us. We can change our lives the moment we choose to change them. We don’t have to be stuck in a bad version of the reality that we want. It’s just a matter of changing the way we perceive things around us to break the cycle of false beliefs about ourselves and about life.

Procrastination, Perfection, and a Polish Beer Garden

We often say that we are not qualified for a job because we do not have the skills and experience to pull it off. What we’re really saying is that we are too afraid to try it. We know we can do it, but we lack the determination to do it successfully. We spend more time making excuses and giving a hundred reasons why we can’t do it when we should be using all that energy to try.

We fail to realize that we know more than we give ourselves credit for. If we are given a job that we want but are afraid to do, we should remember that we are drawn to things that we are naturally good at. From that alone, we know that we are capable of doing the job. Even if we have no experience, the necessity of completing the job gives us the push that we need to finish it.

If our passion is bigger than our fears, we’ll do whatever it takes to get the job done. We’ll realize that we are more qualified than we thought. The more we do things that we thought we were unqualified for, the more we can prove we are the perfect people to handle the job.

Another form of self-sabotage is procrastination. We find things to do other than the things that we’re supposedly doing. It is easy to procrastinate because it does not require us to jump into action. It delays us from getting the things that we want. If we are truly serious about changing our lives, we won’t find an excuse. It’s when we’re not ready that procrastination rears its ugly head.

To combat procrastination, we should remember that nothing will ever be 100% perfect so the best way to get things done is to keep the momentum going. One trick is to make a bet with someone who will hold us to it and make sure that we bet something so big that losing would be painful.

The Drama of Overwhelm

Most of the pain and suffering in our lives is caused by unnecessary stress, worries, and drama. We are so easily overwhelmed by fear and anxiety that they affect our productivity and our reality. We resort to drama and needlessly regret not doing things earlier. We are paralyzed by the drama that we create and this holds us back from achieving the things that we really want.

If we shift our perspective, we’ll see that we are incredibly blessed by opportunities and experiences. It’s a mystery why we choose to freak out about all these blessings instead of enjoying them.

To solve this mystery, we need to bust the myths we have about being overwhelmed. One issue is time and the lack of it. What we need to realize is that not having time is just an illusion. To illustrate this, think of the times you were forced to do something and suddenly you had time to do it. This just shows that time is always there but we limit ourselves by believing that there is not enough time. Knowing this can change our perception of time drastically and make it work for us instead of us being enslaved by the illusion we created in our minds.

Disrespecting time affects our alignment to The Universe. It sends all the wrong signals. We need to give time the proper respect that it deserves by not wasting it. To have a good relationship with time, we must manage it properly. Often, we waste time doing things that we shouldn’t be doing in the first place, that’s why there’s an illusion of the lack of time. If we use the time to do things that matter, we can create a better version of our current realities.

When we think that there’s a limit to time, we are easily overwhelmed by huge tasks. We start to question our abilities to accomplish them. It’s not time that stops us from achieving, it’s the overwhelming feeling of the task presented to us. If we cut a huge task into bite-size pieces, we’ll immediately see how easy it is to complete the task.

Fear Is for Suckers

Fear will always be present in our lives. The problem is that we have made “being afraid” a habit. When we are scared, we condition ourselves to play it safe and avoid risks. What’s worse is that we tell everyone to do the same thing. Instead of being excited about new opportunities, we recoil with terror. If we see someone taking the plunge, we feel afraid for them. When we do something outside of our comfort zones, sirens go off to warn us. What we don’t realize is that what we fear usually doesn’t happen.

Our unhealthy relationship with fear should be changed. Fear is not going to disappear from our lives, so we need to learn to be comfortable with its presence. Instead of being terrified all the time, we should learn to exist alongside fear. We have the choice to be fearful or not.

One way to handle fear is to have faith in ourselves and in the unknown. We should ask ourselves if the fear is greater than the faith we have. The incredible moment when we decide to go for it is the moment we gain total freedom from fear. It’s a powerful thing to have and it helps us create new realities.

When we are beset by fear, we should flip it around and make it work for us. If we keep living in fear, we are wasting our time and energy. We must have faith in ourselves and remember that we are sufficiently equipped to deal with any situation. When we take the leap of faith, we must stay connected to the Source Energy. We have to use fear to our advantage and soar above it because we are greater than our fears.

Millions of Mirrors

The people we interact with reveal information about themselves either in spurts or at full disclosure. We filter this information based on our perceptions and judgments and we decide if the person is someone we want to get to know better. It’s not surprising that the people we are drawn to are the people that remind us of ourselves. They’re like mirrors that project the things that we like and do not like.

Our reality is created by the things we focus on. This includes the people in our lives. We surround ourselves with people that show how much or how little we love ourselves. We attract different kinds of people for a reason and that’s primarily to help each other grow and figure things out. We have to learn from our interaction instead of just reacting negatively to things that annoy us. We react because others’ behavior triggers the insecurities, fear, and anxieties that we have lurking inside.

If we continue to focus on beliefs about who we are and what we want to be, we will attract people with the same traits as us. If we have a generally negative belief about ourselves, then we’ll attract people who have the characteristics that we don’t like about ourselves. We need to learn to be good to ourselves. It’s about respecting and loving ourselves, flaws and all.

The Sweet Life

We have the tendency to do things only when we’re richer and more stable in life. When it comes to the people we love, we should not make them wait and we shouldn’t waste time doing unimportant things. We need to start paying attention to people that matter to us.

We need to start right now and not when we think we’re ready. As humans, we age quite quickly and we’ll never be young again so we need to seize the opportunity and spend time with family and friends as much as possible. If we keep flaking out, we are missing out on the best things that life can offer.

Our lives are happening right at this moment, we have to live them by loving ourselves and the important people in our lives. It helps to remind ourselves that we are loved, we are powerful, and we are surrounded by life’s miracles.

The Almighty Decision

Making a decision means we fully commit to it; we sign up to continue moving towards our goals no matter how many roadblocks along the way. Committing to a decision is a tough thing to do because it not only makes us uncomfortable, it also makes us question ourselves. However, if we are serious about achieving goals, then we should do whatever it takes to achieve them.

This act of commitment connects our desires to the Source Energy. It’s crucial to our understanding of ourselves and The Universe. If we do not have a strong connection, it’s easy to give up when we’re pushed to our breaking point. The road to success is not always a straight path. Often, it’s going from failure to failure and crisscrossing uncharted territories. If we are not equipped with the will and conviction to succeed, we will not make it out alive. If we remain passionate and enthusiastic about our journey, even in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges, then success will come to us sooner than we think.

If we are paralyzed with indecision, we are unable to move forward. If we avoid committing to a decision, we are avoiding the success that we so desire. We need to fully trust ourselves to make the right decisions. Sometimes it takes a combination of research and intuition to come to a decision. We need to start learning to make smart and sound decisions, even in the face of uncertainties.

Failure is just temporary. Every highly successful personality has had his or her fair share of failures before they became stalwarts in their respective fields. Failure is only permanent when we quit.

Money, Your New Best Friend

It would be great to create things that we want, instead of taking things that we can get when the opportunity arises. Sometimes we convince ourselves that we’re happy with what’s sensible, but deep inside we know that we want and deserve something better. We know that the better things in life are on the other side of our comfort zones.

Buying something that we think is frivolous or beyond our pay rate is perceived as irresponsible, but if we make the firm decision to buy it anyway, it means we are becoming the kind of person who can make that kind of money and do almost anything. We need to break free from the mindset that we can’t afford things. The first step is to get something that’s completely out of our reach. If we raise the idea of what’s possible, instead of just being merely reachable, we are opening ourselves up to the ways and means to accomplish it.

Expanding our beliefs to what’s available to us gets us one step closer to getting the things that we thought we couldn’t afford. Money is an important currency to acquiring things. Either we use the money we have stashed away for a rainy day or we wait for money to come about. The latter is clearly the more difficult of the two. We have very strict rules about money that somehow stops us from getting more. We’ve been raised to believe that getting into debt is irresponsible and we should not do it. This is not always the case because if we take the leap of faith to a new state of being which we strongly desire to be in, we are able to rise to the occasion and do things we thought we couldn’t do (i.e. pay off debts).

Believe it or not, making money is not just about money. It’s largely about believing what it is possible to have. Money is energy and we already know that The Universe is vibrating with energy. If we shift our perceptions about money, we start to operate at a higher frequency. In this state of being, we offer no resistance as we take actions to let money manifest itself in our lives.

Before we learned about The Law of Attraction, we were taught that the only way to make money is to work hard. We were not taught that we should align our energy with the financial abundance that we desire. This means we should act as if we are where we want to be and create a life that we had envisioned. Our relationship with money is as important as the action we take to gain it. We need to have a healthy and meaningful relationship with money if we want to get more of it.

Remember to Surrender

The Universe works in mysterious ways, but if we have enough faith in it, things can start changing for the better. There are times when we want something so badly we could taste it, but we don’t know how to get it. The reason is that we’re pushing it away when we don’t surrender. This does not mean we’ll just wait for things to happen. We still need to continue taking action, but we also need to let go so that we are ready for what is to come to us. Letting go energetically allows the abundance to come to us instead of forcing it to come to us. It’s that part of the progression where we let The Universe take over the process and allow it to do its job. If we trust the process, then we are aligning our actions to a higher frequency that signals The Universe to do its part. Needless to say, our faith in The Universe should be greater than our fear of not getting what we want in life.

If we are constantly checking and wondering if The Universe is doing its job, then we are not trusting it enough and this prevents us from reaping the benefits. We need to show the right kind of attitude and do our best with the full belief that The Universe is sending us more opportunities. Having doubts and worrying incessantly are forms of resistance. We need to shed doubts, worries, fears, and anxieties so that The Universe can continue to conspire to bring the things we desire the most. When we are in a natural state of surrender, we believe that everything that we wish for already exists. Surrendering keeps our energy flowing and connects us to The Universe. We should not lose that momentum.

Doing vs. Spewing

Statistics show that only 5% of peoplewho sign up for something like a course, a seminar, or a program, do anything with it. This is because even if we desperately want to change our lives, we are not willing to get out of our comfort zones and take risks. What this really means is that we don’t want the change as badly as we say we do.

Successful people are great at operating outside their comfort zones. It’s the only way to thrive, even in the most uncertain of circumstances. If we just stay in one place and avoid the obstacles in life, we will not evolve into better people. Without growth, there will be no new knowledge and wisdom. It’s the willingness to keep pushing through new challenges that separates the successful people from the unsuccessful ones.

Bad habits must go. They are obstacles that keep us from succeeding in life. We must trade these bad habits with good ones. Successful people have good habits in every aspect of their lives, whether it be personal, professional, health, or work. We must determine the good behaviors that will make the biggest and the most positive change in our lives and turn them into daily habits. When we form these good habits, we are armed with the discipline to act towards the fulfillment of our honest goals.

Life either moves forward or shrinks back. We should stop running from the roadblocks in life and start to push through them with an unshakeable faith in The Universe. We have to learn to be comfortable with trusting The Universe so that it becomes second nature.

Surrendering is important because it always comes into play when we’re trying to figure things out when we are in a sticky situation. We should not be contented with settling because there’s so much more in store for us. We just need to decide to make it happen and engage with life and let The Universe work for us. Most important of all, we should love ourselves.

Beam Me Up, Scotty

We have to pursue our dreams and desires with the belief that anything is possible. We should start thinking that we deserve the things we aim for. It would be unfair to deny ourselves the life that we want to live just because other people think that it’s impossible.

It’s time to shift our thinking and realize that we are surrounded by miracles. It’s time to start loving and respecting ourselves. We’re worthy of the things we dream of. Our desires are available to us and we can have them all if we truly believe it.

Conclusion

You Are a Badass provided a refreshing take on The Law of Attraction with real world examples and incredible insights on what makes us fail and succeed. Reading this book may just be the push we need to change our lives for the better.

We can create the realities that we aspire to have just by changing our belief system and loving our true selves. We can learn how to approach different situations by letting go of self-sabotaging behaviors and replacing them with positive habits so that we can receive the great things that we truly deserve.

Quotes

2. “You are responsible for what you say and do. You are not responsible for whether or not people freak out about it.”

3. “You are perfect. To think anything less is as pointless as a river thinking that it’s got too many curves or that it moves too slowly or that its rapids are too rapid. Says who? You’re on a journey with no defined beginning, middle or end. There are no wrong twists and turns. There is just being. And your job is to be as you as you can be. This is why you’re here. To shy away from who you truly are would leave the world you-less. You are the only you there is and ever will be. I repeat, you are the only you there is and ever will be. Do not deny the world its one and only chance to bask in your brilliance.”

4. “You are loved. Massively. Ferociously. Unconditionally. The Universe is totally freaking out about how awesome you are. It’s got you wrapped in a warm gorilla hug of adoration. It wants to give you everything you desire. It wants you to be happy. It wants you to see what it sees in you.”

5. “What other people think about you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.”

6. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

7. “It never ceases to amaze me the precious time we spend chasing the squirrels around our brains, playing out our dramas, worrying about unwanted facial hair, seeking adoration, justifying our actions, complaining about slow Internet connections, dissecting the lives of idiots, when we are sitting in the middle of a full-blown miracle that is happening right here, right now.

8. We’re on a planet that somehow knows how to rotate on its axis and follow a defined path while it hurtles through space! Our hearts beat! We can see! We have love, laughter, language, living rooms, computers, compassion, cars, fire, fingernails, flowers, music, medicine, mountains, muffins!”

9. “There’s nothing as unstoppable as a freight train full of fuck-yeah.”

10. “Because if you base your self-worth on what everyone else thinks of you, you hand all your power over to other people and become dependent on a source outside of yourself for validation. Then you wind up chasing after something you have no control over, and should that something suddenly place its focus somewhere else, or change its mind and decide you’re no longer very interesting, you end up with a full-blown identity crisis.”

11. “Imagine what our world would be like if everyone loved themselves so much that they weren’t threatened by other people’s opinions or skin colors or sexual preferences or talents or education or possessions or lack of possessions or religious beliefs or customs or their general tendency to just be whoever the hell they are.”

12. “So often, we pretend we’ve made a decision, when what we’ve really done is signed up to try until it gets too uncomfortable.”

13. “Never apologize for who you are. It lets the whole world down.”

14. “It’s weird how when you don’t hang out with someone for a while and then you do again, you miss them. It’s like you forget to miss them until they show up to remind you.”

15. “Nobody who ever accomplished anything big or new or worth raising a celebratory fist in the air did it from their comfort zone. They risked ridicule and failure and sometimes even death.”

16. “maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you’ll wake up one day and realize you’re living the kind of life you used to be jealous”

17. “You can hear something over and over and over and over and over and still not really hear it. It does not click. No lo comprendo. Until you’re ready to hear it. And then it is defeaning.”

18. “We only get to be in our bodies for a limited time, why not celebrate the journey instead of merely riding it out until it’s over?”

19. “Hang out with people who are living on purpose, who meet their challenges with a step aside, suckers attitude, who are dating super awesome people, making exactly the kind of money they want to be making (or working toward it) or taking the kinds of vacations they, and you, want to be taking, and you’ll not only see what’s possible for you,”

20. “Holding on to my bad feelings about this is doing nothing but harming me, and everyone else, and preventing me from enjoying my life fully. I am an awesome person. I choose to enjoy my life. I choose to let this go.”

21. “We are all perfect in our own, magnificent, fucked-up ways. Laugh at yourself. Love yourself and others. Rejoice in the cosmic ridiculousness.”

22. “Your life is your party. You get to choose how you invite people and experiences and things into it.”

23. “The only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information.”

24. “It sucks being in love with someone and never being allowed to show it.”

25. “When you are consistently in a state of gratitude, and aware of all the awesomeness that already exists, it, among many other things, makes it much easier for you to believe that there’s more awesomeness where that came from, and that this yet-to-be-manifested awesomeness is also available to you. You’ve received awesomeness before, so of course, you can receive awesomeness again. This is how gratitude strengthens your faith. And having strong faith is a major key in transforming your life.”

26. “We are so unbelievably blessed to have all the things we have, all the opportunities and ideas and people and tasks and interests and experiences and responsibilities – choosing to freak out about it all, rather than enjoying the living of our lives, is like throwing pearls before swine. Such a waste of such a glorious gift.”

27. “Surrendering is the free-falling backwards into the unknown and trusting that The Universe will catch you.”

28. “Follow what feels good in the moment, every moment, and it will lead you through a most excellent life.”

30. “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.”

31. “In order to kick ass you must first lift up your foot. “”

32. “YOUR BRAIN IS YOUR BITCH”

33. “What other people think of you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.”

34. “Because so often when we say we’re unqualified for something, what we’re really saying is that we’re too scared to try it, not that we can’t do it.”

35. “DO NOT WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME GIVING ONE SINGLE CRAP ABOUT WHAT ANYBODY ELSE THINKS OF YOU.”

36. “Making a big fat deal out of anything is absurd. It makes much more sense to go after life with a sense of, “Why not?”instead of a furrowed brow. One of the best things I ever did was make my motto “I just wanna see what I can get away with.”It takes all the pressure off, puts the punk rock attitude in, and reminds me that life is but a game.”

37. “I can pretty much guarantee that every time you tearfully ask yourself the question, “WTF is my problem?!”the answer lies in some lame, limiting, and false subconscious belief that you’ve been dragging around without even realizing”

38. “You are a badass. You were one when you came screaming onto this planet and you are one now. The Universe wouldn’t have bothered with you otherwise. You can’t screw up so majorly that your badassery disappears. It is who you are. It’s who you always will be. It’s not up for negotiation.”

39. “If you work with great people, it will be a great experience. Even if you’re shoveling shit.”

40. “you have to be willing to fall down, get up, look stupid, cry, laugh, make a mess, clean it up and not stop until you get there. No matter what.”

41. “You need to go from wanting to change your life to deciding to change your life. If you want to live a life you’ve never lived, you’ve to do things you’ve never done.”

42. “Just because it’s your brain does not mean it’s on your side.”

43. “There will never be anyone exactly like you. You were given special gifts and talents to share with the world, and even though everybody has special gifts and talents, nobody will use theirs quite the same way you do.”

44. “There’s something called the Crab Effect. If you put a bunch of crabs in a bowl and if, while they’re in there crawling all over each other, one of them tries to climb out, the rest of them will try to pull him back down instead of helping to push him out. No wonder they’re called crabs.”

45. “When you came screaming onto this planet you were truly a bundle of joy, a wide-eyed creature incapable of doing anything but being in the moment. You had no idea that you had a body, let alone that you should be ashamed of it. When you looked around, everything just was. There was nothing about your world that was scary or too expensive or so last year as far as you were concerned. If something came near your mouth, you stuck it in, if it came near your hand, you grabbed it. You were simply a human… being.”

46. “If you wanna stay stuck in the same place and keep getting spanked with the same lessons over and over, be negative, resentful, and victimized. If you want to get over your issues and rock your life, be grateful, look for the good and learn.”

47. “When we share what we were brought here to give, we are in alignment with our highest, most powerful selves.”

48. “You can sit around and have a broken heart any old time. Rock stardom happens only once in a lifetime.”

49. “No matter what you say you want, if you’ve got an underlying subconscious belief that it’s going to cause you pain or isn’t available to you, you either A) Won’t let yourself have it, or B) You will let yourself have it, but you’ll be rill fucked up about it. And then you’ll go off and lose it anyway.”

50. “Take care of yourself as if you’re the most awesome person you’ve ever met.”

52. “You need to go from wanting to change your life to deciding to change your life.”

53. “Even though they’re often doing it out of love and concern, having others smear their fear and worry all over you is the last thing you need when you’re strengthening your superhero muscles to step out and take some risks, so I highly recommend keeping your mouth shut around people who are gonna bring you down. Instead, seek out those who are already totally kicking butt (or who are lifting up their foot to do so), or people who you know will be supportive, and confide in them. Because you’ll have your own internal freak show to deal with as you try to overcome the objections from your own BS.”

54. “You are perfect. To think anything less is as pointless as a river thinking that it’s got too many curves or that it moves too slowly or that its rapids are too rapid.”

55. “Deciding means jumping in all the way, doing whatever it takes, and going after your dreams with the tenacity of a dateless cheerleader a week before prom night.”

56. “The people you surround yourself with are excellent mirrors for who you are and how much, or how little, you love yourself.”

57. “You are powerful. You are loved. You are surrounded by miracles.”

58. “When you live your life doing the things that turn you on, that you’re good at, that bring you joy, that make you shove stuff in people’s faces and scream, “check this out!!!”you walk around so lit up that you shoot sunbeams out of yer eyeballs. Which automatically lights up the world around you. Which is precisely why you are here: to shine your big-ass ball of fire onto this world of ours. A world that literally depends upon light to survive. You”

59. “Your job isn’t to know the how, it’s to know the what and to be open to discovering, and receiving, the how.”

60. “It’s just as easy to believe we’re awesome as it is to believe we’re giant sucking things.”

61. “What you choose to focus on becomes your reality.”

62. “Every night before you go to bed, review your day and either write down or mentally note ten things you can be grateful for in your life. These can be everything from the beautiful flowers in your garden to the fact that your heart is beating to the hour-long visit from your persnickety neighbor that taught you to be happy that you don’t have her life. Stopping and noticing throughout the day all the things that you can be grateful for is a great way to keep your frequency high at all times. So try and remember to do it all day long, but at the very least, make it part of your evening routine.”

64. “Forgiveness is all about taking care of you, not the person you need to forgive. It’s about putting your desire to feel good before your desire to be right. It’s about taking responsibility for your own happiness instead of pretending it’s in somebody else’s hands. It’s about owning your power by giving all your anger, resentment, and hurt the heave-ho.”

65. “Our greatest fears are the greatest waste of time.”

66. “The Big Snooze is like an overprotective Italian mother who not only doesn’t want you to ever go outside, but who wants you to live with her forever. Her intentions are good, but fully fear-based. As long as you stay inside the familiar, risk-free zone of your present reality, the Big Snooze is content, but should you try and sneak past her to attend the rockin’ party outside, your overprotective, controlling mother is going to claw, scratch, scream, bite, hurl her body in front of your rapidly approaching new life—basically she’s going to do whatever she can to stop you. And it ain’t gonna be pretty.”

67. “Faith smothers your fear of the unknown. Faith allows you to take risks. Faith is the stuff of “leap and the net will appear.”Faith is your best buddy when you’re scared shitless.”

68. “You cut yourself off from the supply of awesomeness when you are not in a state of gratitude.”

69. “All this is to say that it’s not your fault that you’re fucked up. It’s your fault if you stay fucked up, but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that’s been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure. When”

70. “Figure out which affirmations you need to hear the most and repeat them all day long in your head, in the car, while you’re walking down the street pretending to be on the phone, under your breathe in line at the DMV. Write them on Post-it notes and stick them around your house, on your mirrors, in your refrigerator, in your car. Write down your favorite affirmations ten times every morning and ten times every night before you go to bed and say them out loud. Here”

71. “It’s about respecting yourself, instead of catering to your insecure need to be liked. This is incredibly powerful, because when you love yourself enough to stand in your truth no matter what the cost, everyone benefits. You start attracting the kinds of things, people, and opportunities, that are in alignment with who you truly are, which is way more fun than hanging out with a bunch of irritating energy suckers. And by declining to participate in other people’s drama, (i.e. refusing to rip people to shreds, to complain about how unfair the world is, etc.) you not only raise your own frequency, but you offer the drama queens the chance to rise up too, instead of everyone continuing to play a low, lame game. Never apologize for who you are. It lets the whole world down.”

72. “And while there are countless ways that we rip ourselves off, there’s one way in particular that is, without a doubt, the most rampant and the most devastating of all: we invest everything we’ve got in believing that we’re not good enough.”

73. “There’s nothing as unstoppable as a freight train full of fuck-yeah. If you’ve ever known what it’s like to be in your groove, and are having trouble finding your way right now, think back to your attitude and what your priorities were when you were totally lit up about life, and use them to help give you the clarity and the kick in the rear end you need now.”

74. “What you tell yourself on a daily basis is more powerful than you know.”

75. “Nobody who ever accomplished anything big or new or worth raising a celebratory fist in the air did it from their comfort zone.”

76. “Once you’ve truly forgiven someone, wipe the slate clean. So often we form judgments about people and then, no matter what they do, we see them through the lens of that judgment. Which means we’re just waiting for them to piss us off again. Which means we’re still in the Forvginess-lite stage; we’re pretending we’re cool but we’re really still holding on to some resentment. Release all expectations, let everyone off the hook, treat people as a blank slate over and over again, expect only the best from them regardless of what they’ve done in the past”

77. “Keep your thoughts directed at your goal, do everything that you DO know how to do to make it happen, decide with unwavering determination that it will happen, and be on the lookout for the opportunity.”

78. “When we’re in fear, we hold on to what we’ve got because we don’t trust that there’s more. We pinch off the energy, we’re scared to share, and we focus on, and create more of, the very thing we’re hoping to avoid, which is lack. We”

79. “An epiphany is a visceral understanding of something you already know.”

80. “Comparison is the fastest way to take all the fun out of life.”

81. “Let’s review, shall we? 1. List off your old stories that you’ve gotten into the habit of thinking and saying. 2. Journal about the false rewards you get from them. 3. Feel into these false rewards, thank them for their help, and decide to let them go. 4. Take each false reward and write a new, powerful story to replace it with. 5. Repeat this new story, or affirmation, over and over and over until it becomes your truth. 6. Behold your awesome new life.”

82. “INSPIRATIONAL NOTE TO SELF:

83. Flowers grow in sand.

84. I can do anything.”

85. “Life often turns to shit before it turns to shinola.”

86. “It’s important to look for ways to be grateful for all that you’ve manifested, even things that you might label under “No, thanks.”If you focus on the negative aspects of the more challenging things in your life, it will just lower your frequency, keep you in pain and resentment, attract more negativity to you, very possibly make you sick, and very definitely make you crabby. If you instead look for ways to be grateful for everything in your life, it not only raises your frequency, but it allows you to grow by opening you up to the lesson.”

87. “You created the reality you now exist in with your thoughts, which means you can use the very same power of thought to change it.”

88. “first things you might have to deal with when you decide to wake up from the Big Snooze and make massive positive changes in your life is disapproval from other people who are snoring away. Especially the people closest to you, lame as this may sound. They may express their discomfort in all sorts of ways: anger, hurt, bafflement, criticism, snorting every time you talk about your new business or your new friends, constant remarks about how you’re not the way you used to be, brow furrowing,”

89. “All that matters is what’s true for you, and if you can stay connected to that without straying, you will be a mighty superhero.”

90. “What you focus on you create more of.”

91. “Meditation, otherwise known as sitting still and thinking about nothing, is one of those things that can be just as stupidly simple as it is surprisingly hard.”

92. “Don’t sleep with your drummer. Dumb-ass.”

93. “There’s a great Hindu story about a lady who wanted to meet the god Krishna. So she went into the forest, closed her eyes, and prayed and meditated on making the god appear and lo and behold, Krishna came wandering down the forest path toward her. But when Krishna tapped the lady on the shoulder, she, without opening her eyes, told him to get lost because she was busy meditating on a very important goal.”

94. “Wanting can be done sitting on the couch with a bong in your hand and a travel magazine in your lap. Deciding means jumping in all the way, doing whatever it takes, and going after your dreams with the tenacity of a dateless cheerleader a week before prom night. You”

95. “Being in a band is just like being married. The children are the songs and the sex is playing live onstage.”

96. “What comes out of your mouth comes into your life.”

97. “LOVE YOURSELF No matter who you really are.”

98. “Byron Katie says, “We don’t attach to people or things, we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.”

99. “The moment you have the audacity to start believing in the not-yet seen, your reality will begin to shift.”

100. “The trick is to not only deny the criticism any power over you, but, even more challenging, to not get caught up in the praise. There’s nothing wrong with blushingly accepting a compliment, but if you find yourself always seeking outside approval that you’re good enough or cool enough or talented enough or worthy enough, you’re screwed. Because if you base your self-worth on what everyone else thinks of you, you hand all your power over to other people and become dependent on a source outside of yourself for validation. Then you wind up chasing after something you have no control over, and should that something suddenly place its focus somewhere else, or change its mind and decide you’re no longer very interesting, you end up with a full-blown identity crisis.”

101. “Worrying is praying for stuff you don’t want.”

102. “When taking great leaps forward, life often turns to shit before it turns to Shinola.”

103. “And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, “You owe me.”Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky. —Rumi”

105. “We tiptoe through life hoping to safely make it to death. —Unknown”

106. “Finding the good and the lessons in things allows us to move through them and on to new experiences. If you wanna stay stuck in the same place and keep getting spanked with the same lessons over and over, be negative, resentful, and victimized. If you want to get over your issues and rock your life, be grateful, look for the good and learn. 2.”

107. “I realize I’m making it sound like we’re all crazy, but that’s because we kind of are.”

108. “We would be wise to take more of our cues from the beasts and babies. All”

109. “when you show up disappointed or angry or guilty or oblivious instead of being grateful, you’re at a lower frequency and thereby less connected to Source Energy and in a less powerful state to manifest good feeling things and experiences into your life.”

110. “You can take your life wherever you want it to go, so grab it by its nether regions and make doing the things you love a priority.”

111. “The only failure is quitting.”

112. “Your true self or your higher self or your superhero self…gets validation from within (I love and trust myself, this feels right to me, I have a purpose, I am loved), it’s proactive (I’m in control of my life, I think I’ll head on out and kick me some ass), love-based, and is committed to creating based on your limitless potential– as soon as you wake up from the Big Snooze.”

113. “Having a good attitude and being grateful for all the things that are helping you live the life of your dreams will not only make your life a more pleasant place to be, and get you bigger tips, but it will also raise your frequency and attract the people and opportunities to you that will take you in the direction you want to go.”

114. “Surrendering isn’t about what you do, but who you’re being as you do it. Your”

117. “All of us are connected to this limitless power and most of us aren’t using but a fraction of it.”

118. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. —Kurt Cobain;”

119. “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. —W.H. Murray;”

120. “giving is one of our greatest joys. It’s also one of the most fearless and powerful gestures there is.”

121. “It was about no longer being the kind of person who takes what she can get, and finally becoming the kind of person who creates exactly what she wants.”

122. “Trade in your drama about how you can’t have what you want for the grateful expectation that miracles will walk into your life, and the more commonplace those miracles will become.”

123. “All the stuff we’re so worried about creating and fixated on becoming is already right here, right now. The money you want already exists; the person you want to meet is already alive; the experience you want to have is available, now; the idea for that brilliant song you want to write is here, now, waiting for you to download the information. The knowledge and insight and joy and connection and love are all wagging their hands in your face, trying to get your attention. The life you want is right here, right now.

124. What the hell am I talking about? If it’s all here, where is it?

125. Think of it like electricity. Before the invention of the light bulb, most people weren’t aware of electricity’s existence. It was still here, exactly the same way it is right now, but we hadn’t yet woken up to it. It took the invention of the light bulb to bring it to our attention. We had to understand how to manifest it into our reality.”

126. “How do you forgive the stupid bastard?”

127. “Imagine how different your reality would be (and the reality of everyone surrounding you) if you woke up every morning certain of your own lovability and your critically important role on this planet. And if you poo-pooed shame, guilt, self-doubt, and self-loathing and allowed yourself to be, do, and have everything your little heart desired. THAT”

128. “My friend’s dog is so happy to see her every single time she walks in the door it’s like she’s about to free him from forty years of imprisonment.”

129. “We tend to hold on to resentment because we feel like the nitwit who wronged us doesn’t deserve foreignness. Meanwhile, the only person being punished by your resentment is you. Forgiveness is about you deserving peace, not necessarily about others deserving your forgiveness. You are allowing nasty those of nasty things to take up precious space in your mind. If you love yourself, you’ll end your own torture and let it go. (239)”

130. “As Albert Einstein so aptly noted, “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”Here”

131. “If you want to live a life you’ve never lived, you have to do things you’ve never done.”

132. “It’s about being proactive about creating a life you love instead of meekly living the one you think you’re stuck with. Give yourself the gift of a joyous life while you’re still among the living.”

133. “And if the answer is “let the jackass think he’s right,”then so be it.”

134. “Holding on to resentment is like taking poison and waiting for your enemies to die.”

135. “5. READ YOUR MANIFESTO Write down your goals and your vision of your ideal life in the present tense and be as specific as possible. Where do you live, who do you live with, what do you do for fun, who are you surrounded by, how much money do you make, how do you make it, how do you give back to the world, what are you wearing, etc. Make it so freaking awesome that you can’t read it without weeping and wailing and putting it down to compose yourself every few sentences. Read it to yourself before you go to bed and when you wake up every single solitary day I am so not kidding over here. Become obsessed with it. Think about how you’re changing your life and who you’re becoming and be in a state of giddy expectation about it as often as possible. The more you focus on who you’re becoming, and the more emotional you can get about it, the faster you will become it.”

136. “There’s a great line from the poet Anaïs Nin that reads: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

137. “Opportunity is in the eye of the beholder.”

138. “And yes, at the beginning it may feel like you’re lying to yourself, but the truth is, you’re living the lie, so the affirmations get you back to truth.”

139. “Stop talking about how busy you are. Focus on what you enjoy about what you do and the spaces in between the doing instead of feeling weighed down by it all. Decide that you live an awesome, relaxed life full of interesting projects that you love doing and communicate that to the world and yourself. And then go out and merrily do it.”

140. “You’re gonna have to push past your fears, fail over and over again and make a habit of doing things you’re not so comfy doing. You’re going to have to let go of old, limiting beliefs and cling to your decision to create the life you desire like your life depends on it. Because guess what? Your life does depend on it. As”

141. “There’s something called the Crab Effect. If you put a bunch of crabs in a bowl and if, while they’re in there crawling all over each other, one of them tries to climb out, the rest of them will try to pull him back down instead of helping to push him out. No wonder they’re called crabs. Imagine how different our world would be if we were less crab-like.”

142. “This is incredibly powerful, because when you love yourself enough to stand in your truth no matter what the cost, everyone benefits. You start attracting the kinds of things, people, and opportunities, that are in alignment with who you truly are, which is way more fun than hanging out with a bunch of irritating energy suckers. And by declining to participate in other people’s drama, (i.e. refusing to rip people to shreds, to complain about how unfair the world is, etc.) you not only raise your own frequency, but you offer the drama queens the chance to rise up too, instead of everyone continuing to play a low, lame game.”

143. “As French author and fearless truth-seeker, André Gide, so aptly put it, “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”This is about believing that we live in a loving, kind and abundant Universe instead of one that’s petty, mean, and likes other people more than it likes you.”

145. “As Albert Einstein so aptly noted, “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

146. “Believe, really believe, that what you desire is here and available to you. And you can have it all.”

147. “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. —Lao Tzu;”

148. “lots of people wish for change, really, really want it, are willing to invest the time and money into it, but are ultimately not willing to get uncomfortable enough to actually make anything happen.”

149. “We need smart people with huge hearts and creative minds to manifest all the wealth, resources, and support they need to make their difference in the world. We need people to feel happy and fulfilled and loved so they don’t take their shit out on themselves and other people and the planet and our animal friends. We need to be surrounded by people who radiate self-love and abundance so we don’t program future generations with gnarly beliefs like money is bad and I’m not good-enough and I can’t live the way I want to live. We need kickass people to be out of struggle and living large and on purpose so they can be an inspiration to others who want to rise up, too. The”

150. “7. LOVE YOURSELF More than you love your drama.”

151. “Mind is the master power that molds and makes And man is Mind and evermore he takes The tool of Thought and, shaping what he wills Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills. He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking glass. —”

152. “It’s not that the things and opportunities that we want in life don’t exist yet.

153. It’s that we’re not yet aware of their existence (or the fact that we can really have them).”

154. “Nothing in this world is permanent, including our stories. Yet we try to hold on to them for false security, which ultimately leads to sorrow and loss. Be willing to let go. Keep reinventing your story as you continue to grow. 4.”

155. “All the stuff we’re so worried about creating and fixated on becoming is already right here, right now. The money you want already exists; the person you want to meet is already alive; the experience you want to have is available, now; the idea for that brilliant song you want to write is here, now, waiting for you to download the information. The knowledge and insight and joy and connection and love are all wagging their hands in your face, trying to get your attention. The life you want is right here, right now. What”

156. “We don’t realize it, but we’re making the perks we get from perpetuating our stories more important than getting the things we really want because it’s familiar territory, it’s what we’re comfy with and we’re scared to let it go. If we’ve been depressed or victimized or whatever since childhood, we trick ourselves into believing that it’s really who we are as adults in order to continue reaping “the rewards.”It’s how we survived as kids, but it doesn’t serve us anymore so we need to get rid of it or we’ll just keep creating more of it.”

157. “Our fantasies are our realities in an excuse-free world.”

158. “I was doing pretty well—I’d published a couple of books, had lots of great friends, a close family, an apartment, a car that ran, food, teeth, clothes, clean drinking water—compared to the majority of the planet, my life was a total cream puff. But compared to what I knew I was capable of, I was, shall we say, unimpressed.”

159. “We’re on a planet that somehow knows how to rotate on its axis and follow a defined path while it hurtles through space! Our hearts beat! We can see! We have love, laughter, language, living rooms, computers, compassion, cars, fire, fingernails, flowers, music, medicine, mountains, muffins! We live in a limitless Universe overflowing with miracles! The fact that we aren’t stumbling around in an inconsolable state of sobbing awe is appalling. The Universe must be like, what more do I have to do to wake these bitches up? Make water, their most precious resource, rain down from the sky? The”

160. “Even if it seems impossible, you have to have faith anyway, and the second you stop believing, you pop the bubble and stop attracting the magic in your life. The”

161. “The Force is with you. This”

162. “so aptly put it, “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”This is about believing that we live in a loving, kind and abundant Universe instead of one that’s petty, mean, and likes other people more than it likes you. This is about your faith being greater than your fear.”

163. “Every single person is born with unique and valuable gifts to share with the world. Once we figure out what ours are, and decide to live our lives putting them to use, that’s when, and only when, the real party begins.”

164. “Practice coming from a place of integrity and you will be victorious. 2.”

165. “When we trust that we live in an abundant universe and allow ourselves to give freely, we raise our frequency, strengthen our faith, and feel awesome, thereby putting ourselves in flow and the position to receive abundant amounts in return. When we’re in fear, we hold on to what we’ve got because we don’t trust that there’s more. We pinch off the energy, we’re scared to share, and we focus on, and create more of, the very thing we’re hoping to avoid, which is lack. We live in a universe of give and receive, breathe and exhale, live and die, suck and awesome. Each side depends on the other, and each is relative to the other—every action has an equal and opposite reaction—so the more you give, the more you receive. And vice versa. You”

166. “Because that’s really what this is all about. We need smart people with huge hearts and creative minds to manifest all the wealth, resources, and support they need to make their difference in the world. We need people to feel happy and fulfilled and loved so they don’t take their shit out on themselves and other people and the planet and our animal friends. We need to be surrounded by people who radiate”

169. “here we have the perfect gift to share with the world, just bursting to be opened, and we keep it sitting there, wrapped tightly in a box, growing old and gathering dust. Oh the waste! The agony! Meanwhile,”

170. “realize I’m making it sound like we’re all crazy, but that’s because we kind of are. Most people are living in an illusion based on someone else’s beliefs. Until”

171. “Our subconscious mind is like a little kid who doesn’t know any better and, not coincidentally, receives most of its information when we’re little kids and don’t know any better (because our frontal lobes, the conscious part of our brains, hasn’t fully formed yet).”

172. “The power of giving is so strong that the excitement and the good feelings are often greater for the giver than for the receiver. Which”

173. “Our conscious mind thinks it’s in control, but it isn’t. Our subconscious mind doesn’t think about anything, but is in control. This”

174. “And if we just stopped by for the occasional visits to the future and past, that would be one thing, but the amount of time we spend chewing on junk-food thoughts about what-ifs and how-comes– Lawd help us!”

175. “don’t have to know exactly where it’s going to take you, you just need to start with one thing that feels right and keep following right-feeling things and see where they lead.”

176. “There is a great Hindu story about a lady who wanted to meet the god Krishna. So she went into the forest, closed her eyes, and prayed and meditated on making the god appear and lo and behold, Krishna tapped the lady on the shoulder, she, without opening her eyes, told him to get lost because she was busy meditating on a very important goal. When we get so wrapped up in our heads, we miss out on what’s available to us right now in the moment.”

177. “No matter what you say you want, if you’ve got an underlying subconscious belief that it’s going to cause you pain or isn’t available to you, you either A) Won’t let yourself have it, or B) You will let yourself have it, but you’ll be rill fucked up about it. And then you’ll go off and lose it anyway. We”

178. “No matter how clueless you may feel right now, pay attention to suggestions and opportunities that suddenly present themselves. And notice how you feel—is there something for you that, for whatever reason, feels like it might be good to check out?”

179. “Take the first step in the direction toward something that feels right and see where it leads you. And do it NOW. 3.”

180. “Think of it like electricity. Before the invention of the light bulb, most people weren’t aware of electricity’s existence. It was still here, exactly the same way it is right now, but we hadn’t yet woken up to it. It took the invention of the light bulb to bring it to our attention. We had to understand how to manifest it into our reality.”

181. “You don’t need to invent your ideal life from scratch, you just need to figure out what makes you feel alive.”

182. “As Winston Churchill so aptly explained, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

183. “What you tell yourself on a daily basis is more powerful than you know. Seemingly harmless jokes, over time, turn into seriously destructive beliefs. Our thoughts become our words, our words become our beliefs, our beliefs become our actions, our actions become our habits, and our habits become our realities. So if your favorite joke is that you couldn’t get a date if”

184. “This is about your faith being greater than your fear.”

185. “The Universe will match whatever vibration you put out. And you can’t fool The Universe.”

186. “Become one of your own die-hard fans, look at yourself from the outside, where all your self doubts can’t crawl all over you, and behold what shines through.”

187. “You can start out with nothing, and out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made. —Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith; former drug enthusiast turned spiritual enthusiast turned inspirational badass”

188. “You can start out with nothing, and out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made.”

189. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. —Kurt Cobain; you know who this one is, right? When”

190. “We’re on a planet that somehow knows how to rotate on its axis and follow a defined path while it hurtles through space! Our hearts beat! We can see! We have love, laughter, language, living rooms, computers compassion, cars, fire, fingernails, flowers, music, medicine, mountains, muffins! We live in a limitless Universe overflowing with miracles! The fact that we aren’t stumbling around in an inconsolable state of sobbing awe is appalling.”

191. “The more time you spend in the moment, the richer your life will be. Being present gets you out of your head and connects you to Source Energy, which raises your frequency, which attracts things of like frequency to you. And all of those high-frequency things and experiences are already here, just waiting for you to join the party, all you have to do is shut up, show up, and usher them in.”

192. “Deciding is freedom. Indecision is torture.”

193. “Faith is the muscle you use when you decide to blast outside of your comfort zone and transform your life into something that’s practically unrecognizable to you in your present reality. Faith smothers your fear of the unknown. Faith allows you to take risks. Faith is the stuff of “leap and the net will appear.”Faith is your best buddy when you’re scared shitless. When”

194. “The Universe is made up of Source Energy.

195. All energy vibrates at a certain frequency. Which means you’re vibrating at a certain frequency, and everything you desire, and don’t desire, is also vibrating at a certain frequency.

196. Vibration attracts like vibration.”

197. “This is incredibly powerful, because when you love yourself enough to stand in your truth no matter what the cost, everyone benefits. You start attracting the kinds of things, people, and opportunities, that are in alignment with who you truly are, which is way more fun than hanging out with a bunch of irritating energy suckers.”

198. “Stay away from people with tiny minds and tiny thoughts and start hanging out with people who see limitless possibility as the reality.”

199. “Decisions are not up for negotiation.”

200. “The whole point of deciding is to stop wasting time and to move forward, not to spend time figuring out how you can wiggle out of your decision! It helped me to think of it this way: I’m not going to go home and negotiate about whether or not I’m going to smoke a cigarette just as I’m not going to go home and negotiate about whether or not to snort some horse tranquilizers. I don’t negotiate about snorting horse tranquilizers because I’m not a horse-tranquilizer snorter. Now that I don’t smoke, I’m not going to negotiate about smoking because I don’t smoke.”

201. “Birthing your dreams is like. . . . giving birth. Conceiving the idea is the fun part (hopefully), then you go through insane amounts of fear and excitement and dreaming and planning and vomiting and growing and thinking you’re crazy and thinking you’re awesome and stretching and shape shifting until you’re practically unrecognizable to everyone, even your own self. Along the way you clean up your puke and massage your aching back and apologize to all the people whose heads your ripped of in a hormonal killing spree, but you stay the course because you know this baby of yours is going to be the bomb. Then, finally, just when you can see a light at the end of the tunnel, labor starts. Your innards twist and strangle and force you to stumble around hunched over in the shape of the letter “C”while you breathe and pray and curse and just when you think it can’t get any more out-of-your-mind painful, a giant baby head squeezes out of a tiny hole in your body. Then. A full-blown miracle appears.”

202. “Finding the good and the lessons in things allows us to move through them and on to new experiences. If you wanna stay stuck in the same place and keep getting spanked with the same lessons over and over, be negative, resentful, and victimized. If you want to get over your issues and rock your life, be grateful, look for the good and learn.”

204. “Do not fall prey to the false belief that by forgiving someone you’re letting them off the hook. Because when you forgive someone you let yourself off the hook.”

205. “Instead, try seeing yourself through the eyes of someone who admires you. They get it. They believe in you leaps and bounds. They aren’t connected to your insecurities and negative beliefs about yourself. All they see is your true glory and potential. Become one of your own die-hard fans, look at yourself from the outside, where all your self doubts can’t crawl all over you, and behold what shines through. You”

206. “figure out what makes you feel like you could carry a horse over your head and do it as often as possible. You are going for the gold here, you have to stay in The Zone. 9.”

207. “giving is one of our greatest joys.”

208. “What you focus on you create more of in your life. If you’re consciously or subconsciously focused on certain beliefs about who you are, or who you want to be or who you do not want to be, you will attract people who mirror those traits right back at you.”

209. “Most people are living in an illusion based on someone else’s beliefs. Until”

210. “It’s all about contributing to the world by making life easier, happier, safer, healthier, better, tastier, more beautiful, more fun, more interesting, more thoughtful, more loving—whatever you do, bring something good to the party.”

211. “*The definition of screwing someone over is taking their money and doing a lousy job or destroying their water source or enslaving populations, things like that—your mother being disappointed or your father disapproving or your friends being outraged does not qualify as screwing someone over.”

212. “Gratitude connects you to the truth that you not only have the power to manifest that which you seek, but you are the power.”

213. “Here’s the thing: Making money isn’t only about the money, just as losing weight isn’t only about losing weight and finding your soul mate isn’t only about finding your soul mate. It’s about who you become and what you believe is possible for yourself.”

214. “You can start out with nothing, and out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made. —Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith; former drug enthusiast turned spiritual enthusiast turned inspirational badass”

215. “You’re going to have to let go of old, limiting beliefs and cling to your decision to create the life you desire like your life depends on it. Because guess what? Your life does depend on it.”

216. “We spend the vast majority of our time moving at full speed ahead, both physically and mentally, and we literally bulldoze over the very answers we’re seeking because they can’t be heard above the din.”

217. “Once you know what the beast looks like, you can slay it. Take”

218. “We need smart people with huge hearts and creative minds to manifest all the wealth, resources, and support they need to make their difference in the world.”

219. “Be the alien for twenty-four hours and see what you come up with. 2.”

220. “Because if you base your self-worth on what everyone else thinks of you, you hand all your power over to other people and become dependent on a source outside of yourself for validation.”

221. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. —André Gide; French author, Nobel Prize winner,”

222. “We need people to feel happy and fulfilled and loved so they don’t take their shit out on themselves and other people and the planet and our animal friends.”

223. “Feeling like you don’t deserve the things that make you the happiest and best version of yourself, because it’s greedy or is asking too much, ultimately rips off the rest of the world because you aren’t being fully supported and, as a result, aren’t sharing your highest frequency with the world.”

224. “When you were born you didn’t know that you had a body, let alone that you should be ashamed of it.”

225. “Get over it. Let it go. The longer you stay attached to being vindicated, the longer they hang around in your consciousness, stinking up your life.”

226. “When you learn to consciously master the energetic realm, believe in the not yet seen, and stay in your highest frequency, you harness your innate power to create the reality you desire.”

227. “Be your best, do your best, demand the best, expect the best, receive the best, and put your best out into the world so everyone can receive your best, too.”

228. “As the alien, everything about this life is new to you. You look around—what do you see? What is this person who you’ve inhabited so obviously awesome at? What do they have the most fun doing? What connections do they have? What resources and opportunities are available to them? As”

229. “People who are successful are not only willing to get uncomfortable, but they know they have to make a habit of it if they want to stay successful.”

230. “Watching someone else totally go for it can be incredibly upsetting to the person who’s spent a lifetime building a case for why they themselves can’t”

231. “Imagine what our world would be life if everyone loved themselves so much that they weren’t threatened by other people’s opinions or skin colours or sexual preferences or talents or education or possessions or lack of possessions or religious beliefs or customs or their general tendency to just be whoever the hell they are.”

232. “everyone is living in their own self-created illusion,”

233. “You aren’t a better person for feeling guilty or bad about yourself, just a sadder one”

234. “you receive the great gift of being enlightened to some of your own not-so-special traits so you can grow and learn from them”

235. “we invest everything we’ve got in believing that we’re not good enough. We arrive here as perfect little bundles of joy and then set about the task of learning to un-love ourselves! How unbelievably ridiculous is that?! Self-love, the simplest yet most powerful thing ever, flies right out the window when we start taking in outside information. I”

236. “I’m talking about a deep connection with our highest selves, and an unshakable ability to forgive our lowest. I’m talking about loving ourselves enough to let go of guilt, resentment, and criticism and embrace compassion, joy, and gratitude.”

237. “One day you might realize you can no longer remember the names of the people whose approval you o desperately thought you would die without”

238. “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”

239. “Give yourself the gift of a joyous life while you’re still among the living. Also,”

240. “André Gide, so aptly put it, “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

241. “Do not spend your life clinging to the insulting decisions you’ve made about yourself. Instead, make the conscious choice to replace them with new and improved ones. 5.”

242. “LOVE YOURSELF And life becomes a party.”

243. “Everything you do along your journey contributes to where you’re going. Let”

244. “When you came screaming onto this planet you were truly a bundle of joy, a wide-eyed creature incapable of doing anything but being in the moment. You had no idea that you had a body, let alone that you should be ashamed of it. When you looked around, everything just was. There was nothing about your world that was scary or too expensive or so last year as far as you were concerned. If something came near your mouth, you stuck it in, if it came near your hand, you grabbed it. You were simply a human . . . being. While”

245. “One of the best things I ever did was make my motto “I just wanna see what I can get away with.”It takes all the pressure off, puts the punk rock attitude in, and reminds me that life is but a game.”

246. “But maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you’ll wake up one day and realize you’re living the kind of life you used to be jealous of.”

247. “front of thousands doing a split in the air, but remember that you are going for it, you are bravely moving toward your dream, you are surrounded by unthinkable miracles and opportunities. Lean back, relax, and be grateful that you’re living on purpose, that you’re hanging out in a high frequency, and that everything you need is zooming toward you. 4.”

251. “Anaïs Nin that reads: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

252. “All this is to say that it’s not your fault that you’re fucked up. It’s your fault if you stay fucked up, but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that’s been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure.”

253. “better our bodies feel, the happier and more productive we are. 7.”

254. “You are a badass. You were one when you came screaming onto this planet and you are one now. The Universe wouldn’t have bothered with you otherwise. You can’t screw up so majorly that your badassery disappears. It is who you are. It’s who you always will be. It’s not up for negotiation. You”

255. “Being in gratitude for the not-yet manifested informs The Universe that you know what you desire already exists, and puts you in the right frequency to receive it.”

256. “Going out into the world and trying, yet still deep-down believing that you’re ruled by your past circumstances, is like forgiving someone but still hoping they sit in something wet.”

257. “You are a victim of the rules you live by. —Jenny Holzer; artist, thinker, blurter of brilliance”

258. “All the stuff we’re so worried about creating and fixated on becoming is already right here, right now. The money you want already exists; the person you want to meet is already alive; the experience you want to have is available, now; the idea for that brilliant song you want to write is here, now, waiting for you to download the information. The knowledge and insight and joy and connection and love are all wagging their hands in your face, trying to get your attention.”

259. “You aren’t a selfish person for taking care of yourself, just a happier one.”

260. “Tough love is still love.”

261. “You are a victim of the rules you live by. —Jenny Holzer; artist,”

262. “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. —Nikola Tesla; inventor, physicist, supergenius When”

263. “Think to yourself, “What do I have to do or not do, or think or not think, right now, to be happy?”And if the answer is “let the jackass think he’s right,”then so be it.”

264. “If you hang out with people who constantly whine about how tired, broke and worried about the economy they are, you’ll feel like a hero just for getting out of bed in the morning. Hang out with people who are living on purpose, who meet their challenges with a step aside, suckers attitude, who are dating super awesome people, making exactly the kind of money they want to be making (or working toward it) or taking the kinds of vacations they, and you, want to be taking, and you’ll not only see what’s possible for you, too, but you’ll have more incentive to follow suit.”

265. “The testosterone-fueled chip on my shoulder came from a high school career spent futilely awaiting a timely puberty while standing a good foot taller than everyone on earth, all the boys at my high school included. None of them ever asked me out, but I could make them laugh and kick their asses at basketball, so rather than fail at seducing them, I simply became one of them.”

266. “If something came near your mouth, you stuck it in, if it came near your hand, you grabbed it. You were simply a human . . . being.”

267. “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. —Nikola Tesla;”

268. “You can start out with nothing, and out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made. —Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith; former drug enthusiast turned spiritual enthusiast turned inspirational badass”

269. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without”

270. “been”

271. “Most of the time it’s not lack of experience that’s holding us back, but rather the lack of determination to do what we need to do to be successful.”

272. “So far this appears to be much the same self-help woo woo you can find in pretty much any other self-help woo woo book. However, this really struck me as relevant to our current world situation:

273. “When we trust that we live in an abundant universe and allow ourselves to give freely, we raise our frequency, strengthen our faith, and feel awesome, thereby putting ourselves in flow and the position to receive abundant amounts in return. When we’re in fear, we hold on to what we’ve got because we don’t trust that there’s more. We pinch off the energy, we’re scared to share, and we focus on, and create more of, the very thing we’re hoping to avoid, which is lack.”

274. “compared to what I knew I was capable of, I was, shall we say, unimpressed. “

275. “When we trust that we live in an abundant universe and allow ourselves to give freely, we raise our frequency, strengthen our faith, and feel awesome, thereby putting ourselves in flow and the position to receive abundant amounts in return. When we’re in fear, we hold on to what we’ve got because we don’t trust that there’s more. We pinch off the energy, we’re scared to share, and we focus on, and create more of, the very thing we’re hoping to avoid, which is lack.”

276. “It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. —RalphWaldo Emerson; American poet, essayist, visionary, giver”

277. “You are a victim of the rules you live by. —Jenny Holzer; artist, thinker, blurter of brilliance Many”

278. “This is all about learning and loving and growing into the highest version of yourself, not seeing just how much torture you can endure.”

279. “Life is but a dream. Don’t turn it into a nightmare.”

280. “It’s incredible. The kid could flip over a car without straining his back. I can barely pull up my pants without having to be rushed to the hospital.”

281. “Meanwhile, the truth is, the only questions you ever need to consider when making decisions about your life are: 1. Is this something I want to be, do, or have? 2. Is this going to take me in the direction I want to go (not should go)? 3. Is this going to screw over* anybody else in the process?”

282. “is: Focus on that which makes you feel good and ye shall find (attract) that which makes you feel good. We”

283. “Sex Truth #1: If you don’t have sex for a long time, it sucks, but you’re calm about it. If you haven’t had it for sixteen days, you’re dangerous.”

284. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

285. “you can make some major shifts, create some tangible results, and someday wake up crying tears of giddy disbelief that you get to be you. And”

287. “You are a badass. You were one when you came screaming onto this planet and you are one now. The Universe wouldn’t have bothered with you otherwise. You can’t screw up so majorly that your badassery disappears. It is who you are. It’s who you always will be. It’s not up for negotiation. You are loved. Massively. Ferociously. Unconditionally. The Universe is totally freaking out about how awesome you are. It’s got you wrapped in a warm gorilla hug of adoration. It wants to give you everything you desire. It wants you to be happy. It wants you to see what it sees in you. You are perfect. To think anything less is as pointless as a river thinking that it’s got too many curves or that it moves too slowly or that its rapids are too rapid. Says who? You’re on a journey with no defined beginning, middle or end. There are no wrong twists and turns. There is just being. And”

288. “try seeing yourself through the eyes of someone who admires you. They get it. They believe in you leaps and bounds. They aren’t connected to your insecurities and negative beliefs about yourself. All they see is your true glory and potential.”

290. “In order to truly raise your vibration, you’ve got to believe that everything you want is available to you. And the best way to keep this belief strong is by staying connected to Source Energy. It”

291. “Passion trumps fear”

292. “We need smart people with huge hearts and creative minds to manifest all the wealth, resources, and support they need to make their difference in the world. We”

293. “The trick is to have both parts—energy and action—working in unison: unless your energy is lined up properly with that which you desire, really desire, any action you take is going to require way more effort to get you where you want to go, if it gets you there at all.”

294. “Deciding is freedom. Indecision is torture. Indecision”

295. “Successful people have good habits; unsuccessful people have loser habits.”

296. “All energy vibrates at a certain frequency. Which means you’re vibrating at a certain frequency, and everything you desire, and don’t desire, is also vibrating at a certain frequency.”

297. “Even if they all have the same desire to succeed, create beautiful marketing materials and do similar things, it’s the ones with the proper mindsets who will succeed. The ones who kick ass are the ones who can see themselves kicking ass, who truly believe in themselves and what they’re selling, who remind themselves how much they want to better people’s lives with their coaching, who are excited to get compensated for selling it and have no limiting, subconscious beliefs holding them back. The ones who feel weird or who worry that they’re being pushy and annoying or who subconsciously believe that they don’t deserve to or can’t succeed—they’re not gonna do so good.”

298. “if you get very clear on what you truly want (rather than what you think you should want), believe that it’s available to you regardless of your present circumstances by staying connected to Source Energy and keeping your frequency high, and take decisive action, you will eventually succeed. Have”

299. “You need to raise your frequency to match the vibration of the one you want to tune into.”

300. “Your faith in miracles, and yourself, must be greater than your fear. However easy or rough your birth process is, you have to be willing to fall down, get up, look stupid, cry, laugh, make a mess, clean it up and no stop until you get there.No matter what.”

301. “Receive compliments gracefully instead of countering with a disclaimer such as, “Oh, this ratty old thing?”Try this instead: “Thank you.”Period. Take”

302. “artist, thinker, blurter of brilliance Many”

303. “It never ceases to amaze me the precious time we spend chasing the squirrels around our brains, playing out our dramas, worrying about unwanted facial hair, seeking adoration, justifying our actions, complaining about slow Internet connections, dissecting the lives of idiots, when we are sitting in the middle of a full-blown miracle that is happening right here, right now.”

304. “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. —Lao Tzu; ancient Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism, could have been one guy or a mythical compilation of many, nobody really knows for sure I”

305. “To fear or not to fear, that is the question.”

306. “Albert Einstein so aptly noted, “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

307. “If you want to live a life you’ve never lived, you have to do things you’ve never done. I”

308. “You can choose to be a victim to your circumstances or take responsibility for how you choose to perceive them.”

309. “When it comes to the creatures you love and the things you love and the life you love, what on earth could possibly be more important than soaking them up right now while you still have the opportunity?”

310. “Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”